For adults, Grimace may belong back in a more innocent era of the Hamburgler, a Fillet-of-Fish in styrofoam packaging and Ronald McDonald the creepy clown actually being allowed to haunt the fast-food restaurants across the world.
Bu Grimace is a thing again. Just ask your kids.
The Grimace Shake went on sale in Australia on Friday "for a limited time only".
The purple Grimace shake first appeared in the United States last year for Grimace's 52nd birthday (random, but, whatever).
And then made its way to Canada and England (where it sold out in under four days) before becoming available in McDonald's across Australia on Friday.
In a blaze of publicity.
Of course, TikTok and YouTube are responsible for the resurgence of interest in the purple friendly creature and his purple milkshake.
The #GrimaceShake trend saw the young ones filming themselves drinking a Grimace Shake and then terribly gruesome (fake) things happening to them.
Whether it was their face turning purple or, in the case of Friends star Courtney Cox, her dog growing to the size of a house or something more sinister, such as kids ending up in a serial killer's lair or laid out on a pavement, covered in purple goo, there was no end to their Grimace Shake disasters.
(Are the kids alright? I'm really not sure.)
#Grimaceshake was just the kind of publicity McDonald's doesn't want.
But, also, just the kind of publicity McDonald's does want - free and viral, with a background note of ker-ching.
The Grimace Shake is a bit like the Prime energy drink fad.
It's not so much about the taste of the drink, but more that you have it in your possession and are posting about it.
Enjoy the rest of the school holidays as Australian kids finally get to be part of the #GrimaceShake craze.
I'm sure that purple gunk will wash out easily.
DID YOU THINK HE WAS A CANDIDATE?
Travelling north on the Tuggeranong Parkway, just before the arboretum, have you spotted the corflute for 2 Steazy and wondered what party does he represent? And which electorate is he contesting in this month's Legislative Assembly?
I have. Which proves I am not very hip to the groove.
2 Steazy is, in fact, a DJ, who's adopted a corporate look, and put up some election-style corflutes to actually promote his Vision Music Festival.
The event will be held on Narrabundah Lane, Symonston on December 14.
International and local acts will be pumping out the electronic dance music beats from noon to 10pm.
Tickets are through humanitix.com The link is here.
2 Steazy, aka "the big boss dog of Charnwood", doesn't mind if people mistake him for a political candidate, because he has a few policies up his sleeve, including building a "first-class rave venue" in the heart of Canberra and lifting all the noise restrictions.
He likes to dream big.
"It's about changing the reputation Canberra has for being a graveyard with lights and filling the city with music lights and dancing through the power of rave," he reckons.
